Data and argumentation in historical pragmatics: grammaticalization of a Catalan motion verb construction

"'Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics' has two interrelated aims, one empirical and one theoretical. Its object-scientific aim is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the beginnings of a semantic change process in the grammaticalization of the medieval Catalan 'anar...

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1. Verfasser: Nagy C., Katalin (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT Equinox 2019
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatic interfaces
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Zusammenfassung:"'Data and Argumentation in Historical Pragmatics' has two interrelated aims, one empirical and one theoretical. Its object-scientific aim is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the beginnings of a semantic change process in the grammaticalization of the medieval Catalan 'anar 'go' + infinitive' construction, investigating it from a historical pragmatic perspective. Catalan is unique among Romance languages in that a purposive construction involving this motion verb achieves a perfective past meaning. This evolution is in contrast with the universal pathway of verbs meaning 'go' to grammaticalize into future markers in similar constructions, detected in several languages of the world"--
Beschreibung:ix, 252 Seiten
ISBN:9781781797464

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